Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-11-24
BuRDETTE ON INSOMNIA.

4 RuRpEHE ON INSOMNIA.
!, | Few Standard Method. OF Courtin8 M
lures Sweet ReA 'oror.
What pleases me, whs'n am to-
mented with sleeplessness, Is httl
health book of my own. in VIII 'cn nav
iotted down a few-a very few -of tn
..infallible remedies" for sleeple. ssnes
which have been tried in thoussn' as
or perhaps it was millions-of ca ses
most of which were in the subscriber
own immediate family, or. at the
farthest, circle Of intimate friends, and
had never once failed to effect a per
manent, and it Is needless to say, in
slant cure. All Of these cases collect
lively and each one by itself individ u
ally were and was exactly like my own
in cause. duration and operation The
simplicity of the combined remedy APP
peals at once to humsn confidence
Eat nothing within three hours be-
fore retiring.
Eat light but substantial luncheon
! just before going to bed. Nature alb
/ hors a vacuum. (This il one of the
! prescriptions like.)
| Read light literature before going to
/ bed.
Read nothing after supper. Walk a
mile in the open air just before bed
time.
/ Go to your room an hour before re-
firing and read until bedtime. Give
up smoking altogether.
If you are smoker. a cigar just be-
fure retiring will soothe and tranquil
ize your nerves until you can't keep
awake.
Don't think about sleeping; you
scare away slumber by wooing the
drowsy god
Resolutely resolve as you lie down
that you will go to sleep. and sleep
will come naturally.
Take warm bath, and go from the
tub into bed.
Take cold sponge bath. jump into
bed. and you'll be asleep before your
head touches the pillow,
Walk slowly about your room half
an hour
Lie on your right side, with your
cheek on your hand.
Lie on your left side, with your head
resting on your arm.
Count up to one thousand. q tried
this inhuman bit of idiocy one night
came very near falling asleep two or
three times, but was startled wide
awake by suddenly becoming con-
scious that had lost my count, and
had to begin over again. This care
kept me awake one whole night, when
was so sleepy could scarcely hold
my eyes open. The friend who gave
me this prescription is not living now.
She was woman, and could not, as
a gentleman, offer her violence. So /
dosed a box of marshmellows with
death to rats. and sent them to her.)
Drink milk. (This, according to my
experience. is the best prescription in
the lot. 1t will make you sleep better
than all the bromides going. which
are snares and decisions. But milk
diet not only makes you sleep at night,
but you want to sleep all the next day.
1t makes you intolerably stupid all
the time. 1t is a very pleasant, half
awake feeling, if you have nothing else
to do but to enjoy falling asleep at any
time and in all manner of places, like
Colville in the best told story of these
times Indian SUMMER" but if you
have any work to do it is embarrass-
ing).
So, what is sleepless man who
wants to sleep, going to do? If he
eats light luncheon. smokes mild
cigar, reads Bonner an hour. walks a
mile in the air. comes back and walks
another mile about his room, takes
sponge bath, cold. followed by tub
bath. warm. drinks pint of milk,
jumps into bed. and lies on both sides,
with his head on one arm and one
hand and counts thousand, it will
be time to get up anyhow. and he can
have few nervous fits during the
day.
1t is fact, however, that even men
who think they suffer from sleepless-
ness do not lie awake half so long as
they imagine they do. When a man
says to me: Il did not close my eyes
once all night" know he lies. Not
Intentionally, of course. He thinks he
was awake all night; the probability
is that he did not get to sleep until
two hours after his regular time, and
it seemed an age to him. Really, it
isn't often that a man lies awake the
whole night through. l am not
physician, and can not speak by the
book, but believe that men fib about
their sleepless nights more than any
other ill to which our weak humani-
ty is heir. Now, take your own case;
you remember the last time you lay
awake all night don't you? Yes,
see you do. Well, don't you remem-
Der that same night you heard the
clock strike two, and then the next
t ime you heard it, it struck seven?
Yes? see you do. Well. that's one
of the mysteries about insomnia that |
is difficult to explain. Robert j. Bur- |
dette, in Des MONIES Register.
The Only Accident.